Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!yahoobb218120102027.bbtec.NET!not-for-mail From: Eric Takabayashi Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: I've finally figured this puppy out Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 04:55:58 +0900 Lines: 42 Message-ID: <3FC656CD.EBE45069@yahoo.co.jp> References: <3FC0A9FA.18DA4237@yahoo.co.jp> <3md1svo5irh80rphon12f3mnl68e19aint@4ax.com> <3FC224F2.26BA5A9B@yahoo.co.jp> <3FC34410.B4ABB722@yahoo.co.jp> <3FC36EB4.8FF7BD8@yahoo.co.jp> <3FC49B6B.16609C6C@yahoo.co.jp> <3FC4ED62.41FED950@yahoo.co.jp> <3FC61241.65F1E0BB@yahoo.co.jp> Reply-To: etakajp@yahoo.co.jp NNTP-Posting-Host: yahoobb218120102027.bbtec.net (218.120.102.27) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1069963107 65623443 218.120.102.27 ([138107]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: ja,en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:8503 cc wrote: > "Eric Takabayashi" wrote in message > > > Fukuyama does not have shelters. When it rains, the government is more > > generous, and allows homeless to stay under a roof in the bicycle parking > > structure. I saw at least five sleeping there tonight, but I could not > > recognize them all covered up, to see if they were the people I knew or > not. > > Unfortunately, the three or four men who live in the other park behind the > > bicycle structure had all their things including futons, in the rain. The > man > > at the castle is allowed to sleep in a restricted area. > > I have not visited the shelters in Osaka, but they have a very bad > reputation. Homeless don't want to go there, what they'd like -for a near > future- is being allowed to build/keep their campments in parks and other > public places. They are more like the traveling 'gipsies' in Europe as > those ask governments and towns to let them use for free a land, water and > electricity but refuse sendentarisation....for reasons I fail to understand. About Tokyo shelters, I have read that homeless prefer where they are to going to where shelters are, because for example, they would like to be with the friends they've made. If living relatively comfortably in a park or dwelling they have made for themselves, I can see that. Some people have been homeless for years. Many homeless also prefer not to be in their hometowns or where they left their families, perhaps partly out of shame. After the Hanshin Earthquake, many victims who lost their homes complained of having to relocate to government temporary housing units, which were also much smaller than houses. But particularly those who became accustomed to living in the units after some years, such as the elderly, later complained that they did not want to leave the friends and neighbors they had made. Of course the government response was to finally shut down and remove all the housing units, forcing people to be taken in by family, to live in public housing, and such, if they had not been able to rebuild their homes or move. -- "I want to meet my father and say, your sperm became me." http://tinyurl.com/wc8y